Laba porridge

Overview

Laba porridge is a porridge made with a variety of ingredients during the Laba Festival to celebrate the harvest and has been passed down to this day. According to "Jiao Te Sheng" in the Book of Sacrifice, in the twelfth month of the year, all things are gathered together for a meal. Laba porridge is made with food from all directions and cooked in one pot with rice. It means gathering all things and harmonizing thousands of spirits. Plowing in spring, harvesting in autumn, tilling in summer and storing in winter. Our ancestors used seasonal changes to arrange the taste of food, which has become the cultural gene of every Chinese. The national sense of ritual comes from internalizing the hard work of work into the sweetness of life. This is an ordinary story about time, and it is also the eternal story of the Chinese themselves. Gold hooks and silver strokes, firewood, rice, oil and salt, inherit the mellow life and the yearning for beauty.

Tags

• porridge
• home cooking
• black rice
• chestnut
• clear water
• peanuts
• pinto beans
• red beans
• red dates
• rice
• rock sugar
• tremella
• lotus seeds
• sweet potato

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Prepare the ingredients according to your own taste

   

2. 2 Soak the grain and legume ingredients for a period of time, rinse and set aside

   

3. 3 Put the cereal and legume ingredients evenly into the cold water pot. The ratio of ingredients to water is 1:5. No more water will be added during the cooking process

   

4. 4 The fire is boiling and the ingredients are rolling

   

5. 5 Turn to low heat and simmer slowly, stirring in the clockwise direction for 20 minutes

   

6. 6 When the mellow aroma of the grain beans is released, you can add sweet potatoes, white fungus and other ingredients, continue to simmer over low heat, constantly stir the ingredients in the pot, and simmer over medium-low heat for 20 minutes

   

7. 7 Add cooked chestnuts to the pot, add rock sugar and red dates

   

8. 8 Simmer over low heat for 20 minutes until thickened and water bubbles pop up slowly in the pot, then serve

   

9. 9 The taste of Laba porridge also lies in sharing, you can prepare some for your loved ones, relatives and friends

   

10. 10 Eating it that night is already a delicious and sweet happiness in life. Share it with your family